BORDER CLOSING PROTESTED : ISRAELI ARABS SLAM LAND CONFISCATIONS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Israeli Arabs marched and held strikes Saturday to protest Israel's periodic confiscations of Arab land and its monthlong closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip For the West Bank and Gaza Strip please see one of the following:
In Gaza City, the Palestinian Authority Palestinian Authority (PA) or Palestinian National Authority, interim self-government body responsible for areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip under Palestinian control. called for an immediate session of the U.N. Security Council to address the closure, said Yasser Abed Rabbo, a minister under Yasser Arafat. Israel sealed off the West Bank and Gaza Strip after a series of deadly suicide bombings by Palestinian militants that killed 62 people in Israel between Feb. 25 and March 4. The closure bars thousands of Palestinians from jobs in Israel and is straining the Palestinian economy. People in 53 Israeli Arab villages went on strike Saturday, while rallies were held in three villages in northern Israel to mark Land Day, an annual memorial to six Arabs killed in 1976 riots protesting Israeli land seizures. In the Bedouin villages of the southern Negev desert Noun 1. Negev Desert - a desert in southern Israel Negev Israel, State of Israel, Yisrael, Zion, Sion - Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine , Arabs planted olive trees. Since Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war, it has confiscated con·fis·cate tr.v. con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·cates 1. To seize (private property) for the public treasury. 2. To seize by or as if by authority. See Synonyms at appropriate. adj. land to build Jewish settlements. And over the years, Israeli Arabs have used Land Day to demand equal rights and adequate funding for their municipal services and schools, and to express sympathy for Palestinians. In Bethlehem on Saturday, 200 protesters marched, mostly women and children. Marchers scuffled with Palestinian police who tried to prevent them from reaching an Israeli army checkpoint on the outskirts of the city. Bethlehem officials said Saturday that Israel planned to confiscate To expropriate private property for public use without compensating the owner under the authority of the Police Power of the government. To seize property. When property is confiscated it is transferred from private to public use, usually for reasons such as about 1,750 acres of land from the city and two surrounding villages for road construction. Israeli confirmation was not available. ``Land confiscations are killing the peace and they are pushing us into a corner,'' said Shouki Assah, director of the Bethlehem Land and Water Institution. In the Galilee Galilee (găl`ĭlē), region, N Israel, roughly the portion north of the plain of Esdraelon. Galilee was the chief scene of the ministry of Jesus. village of Arabeh, about 2,000 Israeli Arabs called for an end to Israel's closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. |
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